{"id":1444823,"date":"2022-04-18T18:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T22:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444823"},"modified":"2022-04-18T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T22:29:45","slug":"from-leftist-icon-to-pariah-the-journey-of-j-k-rowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/from-leftist-icon-to-pariah-the-journey-of-j-k-rowling\/","title":{"rendered":"From Leftist Icon To Pariah: The Journey Of J.K. Rowling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrom-leftist-icon-to-pariah-the-journey-of-j-k-rowling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444823&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Rowling-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The Harry Potter series is one of the biggest franchises in the world. There\u2019s a good chance you\u2019ve probably either read the books, seen the movies, played the video games, or even visited Hogwarts in \u201c<\/span><span>real life<\/span><span>\u201d<\/span><span>. In fact, with over <\/span><span>500 million<\/span> <span>copies sold, the Harry Potter franchise is the best-selling fiction book series in history. But if there\u2019s one thing we know, in 2022, nothing is safe or sacred from the Left. And no one learned that harder than the famed writer of the beloved series, J.K. Rowling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Originally, perhaps no one was more surprised by the franchise\u2019s popularity than the author herself. Rowling\u2019s early life as an author didn\u2019t reap much success; while writing the first Harry Potter book, <\/span><i><span>The Sorcerer\u2019s Stone<\/span><\/i><span>, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-rags-to-riches-story-of-jk-rowling-2015-5\">lived<\/a> off government welfare in a tiny apartment in<\/span> <span>London<\/span><span>. When sent to publishers in 1995, Rowling\u2019s work was widely rejected, until one small publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historic365.com\/article\/1997-06-26\">picked up<\/a> her book in<\/span> <span>1997<\/span><span>.<\/span><span> Almost overnight, her books were a colossal success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Over the years that followed, Rowling was almost as active politically as she was artistically. She became well known for her Leftist views, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2008\/sep\/20\/labourconference.jkrowling\">donated<\/a> millions to Britain\u2019s Labour <\/span><span>Party<\/span> <span>and spoke regularly about the role that government should play in expanding welfare and other traditionally liberal policies. She became vocal about being a self-proclaimed feminist, LGBT advocate, and regularly spoke out about \u201csystemic <\/span><span>racism<\/span><span>\u201d<\/span><span>. You can probably guess how she feels about Trump. She has <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/284125-jk-rowling-trump-fascist-in-all-but-name\/\">referred<\/a> to him as a fascist, a bigot, a giant orange <\/span><span>egg<\/span><span>, <\/span><span>even as the main antagonist of her book series, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/12\/08\/politics\/jk-rowling-donald-trump-voldemort\/index.html\"><span>Voldemort <\/span><\/a><span>himself (or as the characters refer to him \u2014 he who\u2019s name shall not be spoken). Conversely, she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/788932873671811072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">praised<\/a> Hillary Clinton during the election as \u201ca highly intelligent, experienced woman\u201d and spent the entirety of Trump\u2019s presidency decrying his every move, wishing for a \u201cClinton\u201d or \u201cObama\u201d in the<\/span> <span>White House<\/span><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Her political views have certainly carried over to her books. Rowling has been infamous for retroactively changing certain parts of the Harry Potter books months or even years after they were published. Apparently, Dumbledore was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/01\/entertainment\/jk-rowling-dumbledore-gay\/index.html\"><span>gay<\/span><\/a> <span>this entire time \u2013 how could we have missed that? And Hermione?<\/span> <span>She was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2016\/jun\/05\/harry-potter-jk--rowling-black-hermione\">actually<\/a> black<\/span><span>, despite virtually no reference to her skin color or race in the books. Thankfully, according to Rowling, you won\u2019t have to worry about tuition fees at Hogwarts \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/3963231\/j-k-rowling-hogwarts-harry-potter\/\">because<\/a> the Ministry of Magic is happy to pay off your student <\/span><span>loans<\/span> <span>for you. It sounds like Rowling\u2019s reworked wizarding world was actually quite the progressive paradise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So why then, if Rowling is such a die-hard Leftist, would the Left try and cancel her? It would seem obvious that they would want someone with such influence on their side, but remember; to be a true Leftist you can\u2019t commit halfway; it\u2019s all or nothing. If you do not fully commit \u2013 if you\u2019re even missing 1% of the Leftist ideology in your playbook \u2013 then not only are you <\/span><i><span>not <\/span><\/i><span>with the Left, but actively <\/span><i><span>against <\/span><\/i><span>it. And J.K. Rowling made the unforgivable mistake of disagreeing with the Left on one of their most hallowed issues: transgenderism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In December of 2019, Rowling took to <\/span><span>Twitter<\/span> <span>to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/12\/19\/j-k-rowling-under-fire-for-defending-researcher-fired-for-transphobic-tweet-sex-is-real\/\">support<\/a> a researcher who had been recently fired for \u201ctransphobic\u201d comments. Well, that\u2019s the word the<\/span> <span>media<\/span> <span>is using; in reality, the researcher had opposed legislation that would allow people to choose their gender legally without undergoing a medical procedure. Rowling expressed disdain over the firing while trying to appeal to the Left in the process, but it was futile. The second she showed even an ounce of disapproval to the Left \u2013 especially to the trans community \u2013 she became a target. At the time, the Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD \u201cheroically\u201d condemned Rowling\u2019s hateful, \u201canti-science\u201d tweet, and have since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/glaad-responds-tweets-jk-rowling-is-no-excuse-targeting-trans-people-1297412\/\">accused<\/a> her of \u201cdistorting the facts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But where you might expect her to cower before the mob \u2014 like so many before her \u2014 Rowling refused. She didn\u2019t apologize for the tweet. In fact, she doubled down on her statements in June 2020 when devex.com released a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1269382518362509313?lang=en\">headline<\/a> titled \u201cCreating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate\u201d. Rowling was not a fan of the headline. \u201c\u2018People who menstruate?\u2019 You mean, a human female? A woman?\u201d Shortly after, she tweeted that pretending sex and gender are fluid will lead to the erasure of women; she expressed dispirit with the trans community, a community she said she had allied herself with for decades. In the same tweet thread, she said she respects \u201cevery trans person\u2019s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them\u201d but that she wasn\u2019t willing to conceive the truth <\/span><span>fully<\/span><span>. She took to her website to describe the \u201c<\/span><span>toxicity<\/span><span>\u201d<\/span><span> she was receiving from the LGBT community, wishing only to be left alone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Of course, that wasn\u2019t going to stop the Left from showing up at Rowling\u2019s door with pitchforks. Fans and the media alike were outraged. Many were pressing people to stop reading Rowling\u2019s comments altogether to avoid the \u201cfar-right language\u201d and \u201c<\/span><span>pure hate<\/span><span>\u201d<\/span><span>. The media began running <\/span><span>headlines<\/span> <span>bashing Rowling over her remarks while conveniently leaving out that she agrees with the other 99% of their views.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The stars of the Harry Potter movies were quick to virtue signal from their ivory towers as well. <\/span><span>Daniel <\/span><span>Radcliffe, a man who\u2019s amassed a fortune thanks to Rowling\u2019s creative endeavors, bravely proclaimed \u201ctransgender women are women\u201d and apologized to the poor souls who felt their book reading experience was \u201ctarnished\u201d. <\/span><span>Emma<\/span> <span>Watson, likewise a household name thanks to Rowling, told her trans followers that she respects them and sees them before issuing a #PRIDE2020 hashtag. <\/span><span>Eddie<\/span> <span>Redmayne, who plays the main protagonist in the spinoff <\/span><i><span>Fantastic Beats <\/span><\/i><span>franchise, wanted to make it \u201cabsolutely clear where he stands\u201d, which is that Rowling is wrong, and trans women are women, trans men are men \u2013 you get the idea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Warner <\/span><span>Bro\u2019s jumped on the dogpile too. In July of 2020, they released a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/06\/warner-bros-responds-to-j-k-rowling-comments-resolves-to-confront-difficult-societal-issues-1202956215\/\">statement<\/a> promising that diversity and inclusion had never been more important to them, and gave the usual talking points about \u201cfostering empathy and advocating understanding\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But Rowling never backed down. She never apologized for her statements. She still today talks about protecting real women\u2019s rights and drawing the line between trans women and women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s fairly ironic that Rowling, by any standard, is a Leftist. Most of her tweets read like they were written by DNC operatives, and she still regularly advocates for Democrats and against Republicans. But this isn\u2019t enough for the Left.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>No matter how far Left you are \u2014 or have been your entire professional career \u2014 intersectionality demands total adherence to the whims of the outrage mob.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harry Potter series is one of the biggest franchises in the world. 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